1218185 - [RTL] Letters symbolizing days of the week in Calendar (Arabic)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Calendar, defect, P3)

Description

[alizee.aubertin]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:44.0) Gecko/44.0 Firefox/44.0

I noticed the letter أ is too close to the header in the Months view.
I am using today's build on a Flame.

Comment 1

[alizee.aubertin]

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Comment 2

[Lancy(Leave from Mozilla)]

This issue can be reproduced on latest Flamekk&AriesKK v2.5 and FlameKK&AriesKK master build.
Build info:
AriesKK master Build ID:20151112120735
FlameKK master Build ID:20151112150206
FlameKK v2.5 Build ID:20151112122327
AriesKK v2.5 Build ID:20151112123156

Comment 3

[Fabien Cazenave [:kaze]]

We have a general issue with the font that we’re using for Arabic because it does not have the exact same height as the one we use for English and other Western languages: it gets taller than our default font for bigger sizes.

The current behavior is not ideal but it’s still readable. I’d recommend to leave it as is and work on the Firefox OS fonts to ensure they have consistent heights.

Comment 4

[Josh Cheng [:josh]]

Hi Sam, I mark this as P3 for now. Do you know who is the owner for Firefox OS fonts we can NI to?

Comment 5

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Patryk, do you have thoughts? For my part I think we should plan and expect characters to need to be taller in some scripts. Denser characters like in Arabic may lose legibility if we try to always squash them into the same height as latin characters. However, it might still be true that the fonts themselves should be normalized and we tweak at the localization and CSS level.

Comment 6

[Patryk Adamczyk [:patryk] UX]

Font: We had discussions before about this with the Arabic community and I believe we're using the font that they prefer, so I doubt that is going to change.

Perhaps we can shrink the letters slightly in the arabic localization, that should work. Otherwise I'd try to horizontally center the letters.

But the best solution would to have an arabic speaker give insight, since some of my suggestions could be counter to what they would expect.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on